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POETS ALONG THE WEST HALF OF OHIO'S LAKE SHORE Two Trunk Lines to Toledo
The ports of freedom for escaping slaves along the west half of Ohio's lake shore werei Toledo, Sandusky, Huron^ Vermillion/ and Lorain. The opposite shore of Lake Erie being Canadian soil, slaves entering the Dominion were free.
Toledo, at the mouth of the Maumee River, is across the west end of the lake from the Detroit River and near to Fort Malden and Windsor, Qntario. Its trunk lines converged at Perrysburg, fifteen miles up the Maumee. The east
line ran north from Bellefontaine through Kenton, Williamstown, Findlay/ and
Bowling Green to the junction. The west line passed through Sidney, the Shawnee
Indian village on the latter site of Wapakoneta and the Ottawa villages that
stood where Ottawa and Grand Rapids now stand. The Indians befriended Negroes
along the trail as early as I8l8. The earliest whites known to have co-operated
with them were Edward Howard and his son/ D. W. H. Howard. The Howards settled
at Grand Rapids in 1823 and harbored Canada-bound pilgrims in the forest near
their cabin. The father and son guided them down the river to take passage on
lake vessels. From Perrysburg a branch crossed through Maumee village, then
ran north fifteen miles to Sylvania, at the Michigan boundary, and on to Adrian,
a few miles northwest of Toledo. From Adrian the trail extended through
1 Ypsilanti to Detroit,
Branch Lines from Indiana
A route from Newport (later Fountain City) passed northeast through a Negro settlement a little west of Greenville, Ohio, and on up to Carthagena, then struck a little north of east to Wapakoneta to merge with the west line up to Ottawa, Grand Rapids/ and Perrysburg. The towpath of the Maumee Canal for some
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POETS ALONG THE WEST HALF OF OHIO'S LAKE SHORE Two Trunk Lines to Toledo
The ports of freedom for escaping slaves along the west half of Ohio's lake shore werei Toledo, Sandusky, Huron^ Vermillion/ and Lorain. The opposite shore of Lake Erie being Canadian soil, slaves entering the Dominion were free.
Toledo, at the mouth of the Maumee River, is across the west end of the lake from the Detroit River and near to Fort Malden and Windsor, Qntario. Its trunk lines converged at Perrysburg, fifteen miles up the Maumee. The east
line ran north from Bellefontaine through Kenton, Williamstown, Findlay/ and
Bowling Green to the junction. The west line passed through Sidney, the Shawnee
Indian village on the latter site of Wapakoneta and the Ottawa villages that
stood where Ottawa and Grand Rapids now stand. The Indians befriended Negroes
along the trail as early as I8l8. The earliest whites known to have co-operated
with them were Edward Howard and his son/ D. W. H. Howard. The Howards settled
at Grand Rapids in 1823 and harbored Canada-bound pilgrims in the forest near
their cabin. The father and son guided them down the river to take passage on
lake vessels. From Perrysburg a branch crossed through Maumee village, then
ran north fifteen miles to Sylvania, at the Michigan boundary, and on to Adrian,
a few miles northwest of Toledo. From Adrian the trail extended through
1 Ypsilanti to Detroit,
Branch Lines from Indiana
A route from Newport (later Fountain City) passed northeast through a Negro settlement a little west of Greenville, Ohio, and on up to Carthagena, then struck a little north of east to Wapakoneta to merge with the west line up to Ottawa, Grand Rapids/ and Perrysburg. The towpath of the Maumee Canal for some
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